Girls' Surprise: HBO Orders Lena Dunham Revival With Most Main Cast

Girls are coming back. HBO has ordered a limited five-episode run of Lena Dunham's hit comedy, and most of the main cast has confirmed their return. Dunham will reprise her role as Hannah, Alison Williams returns as Marnie, Jemima Kirke has returned as Jessa, Zosia Mamet will play Shoshanna, and Andrew […]

HBO has ordered a five-episode limited run of Lena Dunham's hit comedy, with most of the original cast confirmed to return.

Dunham will reprise her role as Hannah, Alison Williams returns as Marnie, Jemima Kirk returns as Jessa, Zosia Mamet returns to play Shoshanna, and Andrew Runnels, who appeared in the first three seasons as Elijah before joining the cast in season four, also returns.

However, there is no sign of Adam Driver, who played Hannah's boyfriend Adam. In her recent memoir Famesick, Dunham wrote that Driver was "verbally aggressive" during filming of the series. Related news, Sam Levinson's general contract with Amazon, the news of the animated comedy series "Merrick & Treves" from the "Archer" team, ordered by HBO for two seasons.

Production will begin next year, 15 years after it premiered and ten years after the end of season six. Watch on Deadline

Dunham, who also created the Netflix series Too Much, which premiered last year, has long wanted to return to the world of Girls.

Last year, she told Indiewire that if she had something "really special" like millennial women becoming mothers or going through menopause, she would "always want to work with those people again."

In that interview, he also suggested that Shoshanna Mamet is divorced from the mayor of New York, Marnie Williams is on her third marriage, Jessa is unvaccinated and lives on a boat in Croatia, and Adam's driver is a woman. Cult theater actor who lives in Berlin, while Hannah Dunham herself teaches at Bard and has a son and a chef girlfriend.

Dunham created, wrote and directed the series, along with Judd Apatow, and Ilein S. Landers and Michael P. Cohen for Good Thing Going will executive produce the series. Williams, Kirk, Mamet and Runnels serve as executive producers.

Jenny Conner, who served as co-showrunner and a close creative partner to Dunham during the Girls run, is also not returning. Dunham wrote on Famesick that she hasn't spoken to Conner since 2018.

Dunham said: "We always said we would only come back to Girls if there was a particular story we were dying to tell. I missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn't picture them in the present tense. Then, right around my forties, they started talking to me in the shower. And as you might remember, once these five people start talking, it's very hard to stop talking... to what It changed your life with the gift of hindsight and a whole new level of appreciation and understanding. I love these girls (and boys), our friends at HBO, and all the people who continue to discover the show and remind us all over again why we do it, that it's fun to be together... and the chance to wear the yellow meshes..."

Amy Gravitt, EVO, head of comedy programming for HBO and HBO Max, added, “We're thrilled to see Lena take her look from the hustle and bustle of her twenties to her forties. To say the world has changed since we last saw Hannah, Marnie, Shoshana, Jessa and Elijah would be a huge understatement, but we know fans — old and new — will be happy to see how they've grown and to see that they're still the girls we knew back then.

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